CGD Europe

More from the Series

Jun

28

2016

3:30—5:00 PM

CGD Europe Seminar - Localising Development: Donor Approaches to Building Country Ownership (London, UK)
Casey Dunning
and
Ranil Dissanayake
June 17, 2016
Donor governments are increasingly utilising direct partnerships with governments and local organisations as a way to deliver sustainable results. Whether called country ownership, aid localisation, or sustainable development, the evidence base around localised approaches to foreign assistance remai...
Blog Post

Using Aid for Cash Transfers: What Do 10,000 People in 28 Countries Think?
Theodore Talbot
and
Matt Collin
June 14, 2016
Cash transfers might be the next big thing in international development. Yet our analysis of new survey data suggests that public support for cash transfers is modest and fragile. Donors—who are poised to leverage a promising new way of delivering aid to do more good for le...
Blog Post

Head and Heart: Are More Generous Donors Less Effective?
Owen Barder et al.
June 13, 2016
When it comes to development aid, you might think that there is a trade-off between head and heart: that more generous donors would be less serious about making sure that their aid is used properly. But in a new CGD working paper, we find that In general, more generous donors tend also to ...
Blog Post

Do Middle-Income Countries Get More Aid than Low-Income Countries?
Owen Barder
and
Matt Juden
June 10, 2016
In a recent TV documentary, Professor Hans Rosling suggested that middle-income countries (MICs) get three times as much aid per person in poverty as countries which are further back in their development. Is aid being spent disproportionately in MICs? As you would expect, countries are diverse,...